Coronavirus News

The supermarket chain hasn't explained its decision for not offering the low-dose vaccine to ages 6 months to 5 years. It currently offers the vaccine to ages 5 and older.

In one of a series of similar cases across the state, a circuit judge has tossed out a potential class-action lawsuit that argued Florida State University should refund money to students because of a campus shutdown early in the pandemic.

Doses are arriving in Florida, although parents looking for shots may have a hard time finding them for a few days. The White House expects most children will receive them at their pediatrician office.

As the DeSantis and Biden administrations feud over a reported change in state policy on ordering and distribution, Moderna and Pfizer vaccines begin going into tinier arms this week.

According to a report and the federal goverment, the state reversed course and allowed pediatricians to order the vaccine, but the DeSantis administration disputed there was a change in policy

The numbers of new cases reported Friday were the highest totals during the past 10 weeks. Meantime, more than 75,000 Floridians have died from the virus since the pandemic started.

The vaccinations for children as young as 6 months old could start next week. But first, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must sign off.

A school in Massachusetts latches onto a novel Florida program that uses canines to sniff out COVID on surfaces. The idea is to help protect kids from the virus and keep the school open.

The state did not preorder supplies of the vaccine for young children from the federal government by a Tuesday deadline.

The release comes as new data reveals just 53 percent of Florida's third-graders passed the state’s reading test.